Bug#594923: Noflushd causes flush- processes to eat all CPU

2012-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 594923 - moreinfo quit Xavier Roche wrote: > Le 03/03/2012 14:55, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : >> Thanks. Does the attached patch help? > > Yes, mostly. I've passed this information upstream. Hopefully it can be fixed in a 2.6.32.y release soon so everyone benefits. [...] > (the test machin

Bug#594923: Noflushd causes flush- processes to eat all CPU

2012-03-03 Thread Xavier Roche
Le 03/03/2012 14:55, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Thanks. Does the attached patch help? Yes, mostly. It took me a while (the test machine was randomly freezing because of unrelated ACPI issue) but the patch does appears to fix the noflushd problem. With original 2.6.32-5-686 (fresh squeeze insta

Bug#594923: Noflushd causes flush- processes to eat all CPU

2012-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 594923 + patch quit Hi Xavier, Xavier Roche wrote: > I did the following test: > * noflushd 2.8-1 on four SATA disks on a fresh squeeze install > * kernels 2.6.32.57 (without Debian patches) and 3.2.9 > > With the same noflushd, 2.6.32.57 causes the kernel to eat all CPU (load >